Dark matter even more elusive than previously thought
Dark matter might be disappearing and sending its signal - but not very fast - in dwarf satellite galaxies.
Sep 18th, 2020
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Dark matter might be disappearing and sending its signal - but not very fast - in dwarf satellite galaxies.
Sep 18th, 2020
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Sep 16th, 2020
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Sep 16th, 2020
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Sep 16th, 2020
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Sep 16th, 2020
Read moreAccording to observations by the Herschel Space Observatory, the five largest satellites resemble dwarf planets.
Sep 15th, 2020
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Sep 14th, 2020
Read moreThe discovery of a new type of black hole challenges prior understanding of how the mysterious cosmic objects form across the universe, according to a new study.
Sep 11th, 2020
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Sep 11th, 2020
Read moreAstronomers have uncovered a discrepancy between the theoretical models of how dark matter should be distributed in galaxy clusters, and observations of dark matter's grip on clusters.
Sep 11th, 2020
Read moreNew study finds that electrons are locally heated to extremely high energies within the Van Allen Radiation Belts.
Sep 10th, 2020
Read moreUsing computer simulations powered by machine-learning algorithms, scientists have made an important breakthrough in understanding how hydrogen behaves on Saturn and Jupiter.
Sep 10th, 2020
Read moreThe magnetic field is up to one billion Tesla, which is tens of millions of times stronger than what can be generated in Earth laboratories.
Sep 10th, 2020
Read moreA radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars.
Sep 9th, 2020
Read moreNASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft observed tiny bits of material jumping off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. A new study tracks where those particles went.
Sep 9th, 2020
Read moreAn international team of astronomers has solved a 50-year-old mystery: why is there an enormous gas halo the mass of a billion Suns persisting around the Magellanic Clouds?
Sep 9th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have started an international initiative to build a neutrino telescope several cubic kilometers in size in the northeastern Pacific.
Sep 9th, 2020
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